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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/10/2025
Taylor Swift’s never been bigger—and her music’s never been less compelling
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Taylor Swift: The Life of a Showgirl
Read Anna Gaca’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 03/10/2025
Read our 5 takeaways from Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl
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5 Takeaways From Taylor Swift’s New Album The Life of a Showgirl
The 12th entry into the all-consuming Taylor Swift musical reality show cuts right to the chase: She’s head-over-heels in love, and she has some scores to settle.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/10/2025
It is a sweet time to be Oklou. Pitchfork caught up with her on one of the hottest days of the summer to sip neon citronnade, talk about her debut album and its upcoming deluxe edition, and bask in the softness of new motherhood Read our cover story: pitchfork.com/features/cov...
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/09/2025
Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time
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The 100 Best Rap Albums of All Time
We rank the most essential and influential albums of this quintessentially American art form.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 11/08/2025
No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆
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No Joy: Bugland
Read Sadie Sartini Garner’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 10/08/2025
The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge
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Toni Braxton: Secrets
Read Clover Hope’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 10/08/2025
The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements on Israel’s ongoing starvation of the Gaza Strip
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U2 Release Statements on Israel and Gaza
We want our audience to know where we each stand,” Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. wrote before sharing individual statements
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 07/08/2025
The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you can
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The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by steering toward the middle of the road. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers
Read Stephen Thomas Erlewine’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 07/08/2025
Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audience
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Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
Read Olivia Horn’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025
Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough
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King Sunny Adé: Juju Music
Read Will Hermes’ review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025
Here are 20 picks for Song of the Summer
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20 Contenders for the 2025 Song of the Summer
Not sure if there’s really a Song of the Summer? Take a look at our favorites of the season, including “Whim Whamiee,” bops by Sabrina Carpenter and PinkPantheress, some egg-punk, and more.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025
Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody International, the parent company of streaming service Napster
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Sony Music Sues Napster Over Missed Royalty Payments
The company is claiming $9.2 million in unpaid royalties and a potential $36 million in damages from copyright infringement.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025
It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could
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It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: The Man, Not the Myth
With her new documentary, director and producer Amy Berg presents the late Jeff Buckley as a bottomless vessel for creativity—and rejects the idea that he was fated for a tragic end.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025
Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza
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Topshelf Records Launches Donation Initiative for Aid in Gaza
The label behind Ratboys, Ekko Astral, and more will match donations to the Sameer Project for the next 10 months
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025
xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaSon
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Xaviersobased: once more EP
Read Olivier Lafontant’s review of the EP.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 06/08/2025
A talent-stacked double mixtape that’s like a crystallized memory of the club in the mid-2010s
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Metro Boomin: Metro Boomin Presents: A Futuristic Summa (Hosted by DJ Spinz)
Read Matthew Ritchie’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 05/08/2025
“Comafields” is one of the most affecting tracks he’s given us in a while—ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the soul Our track review
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Burial: “Comafields”
The producer re-emerges with a 12-minute mini-suite suggestive of revelation or near-death experience.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 05/08/2025
Algernon Cadwallader is back 🥲
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Algernon Cadwallader Announce Tour and First Album in 14 Years, Share Video for New Song
Trying Not to Have a Thought, the influential emo band’s third LP, comes out next month on Saddle Creek
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 05/08/2025
Heatmiser's Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary) is named Best New Reissue 🏆
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Heatmiser: Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary)
Read Jayson Greene’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 04/08/2025
The Armed's sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous anger
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The Armed: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED
Read Alex Robert Ross’ review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 03/08/2025
We're revisiting one of the strangest, most exhilarating products of the post-Nevermind alternative rock boom, the 1994 record by D.C. hardcore alchemists Shudder to Think Read @philipsherburne.bsky.social's Sunday Review ⬇️
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Shudder to Think: Pony Express Record
Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025
Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died
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Robert Wilson, Boundary-Pushing Playwright and Director Who Collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, and Lady Gaga, Dies at 83
Wilson, whose work was often characterized by distinct lighting and the expansion of time, worked with art world luminaries like Laurie Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Allen Ginsberg, and...
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025
Miimii's “Sé Miimii” is named Best New Track 🏆
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Miimii: “Sé Miimii”
Miimii is a rising talent in the bouyon scene, one of the fastest-growing genres in the Caribbean.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025
Chappell Roan treats an open wound with the sounds of the Cocteau Twins, the Sundays, and the Cranberries Read our track review of "The Subway"
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Chappell Roan: “The Subway”
Channeling Cocteau Twins and the Cranberries, Chappell Roan puts her spin on plaintive 1980s dream pop.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025
"It was the only time in my life I saw her care about anything happening on a television. Sometimes, I even caught her humming the beat to herself while she fried johnnycakes on the stove" Alphonse remembers his grandmother and her obsession with Fat Joe and Terror Squad’s biggest hit. Read more ⬇️
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On My Grandmother and Her Favorite Rap Song
Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse remem...
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025
Cindy Lee has brought their entire catalog exclusively to Bandcamp, where it is now available to stream, download, and pre-order on vinyl
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Cindy Lee Fully Leaves Spotify and Brings Catalog to Bandcamp: Listen
A comprehensive reissue campaign will also bring every Cindy Lee album, including rarity Cat o’ Nine Tails, to vinyl
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 01/08/2025
A shoegaze star born on TikTok scales up her sound with a full-length debut that’s beautiful on the surface but uninterested in challenging the genre’s priors
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Wisp: If Not Winter
Read Kieran Press-Reynolds’ review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025
Together’s cast and special effects department alone could make for a substantive horror classic, but the script is freighted with distracting cliches and errant plot developments
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Together Review: Love the One You’re With
The body horror debut from writer-director Michael Shanks boasts delightfully gruesome practical SFX, but gets bogged down in horror cliches.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025
On his debut album, the Detroit rapper wrestles with his home scene’s growing influence on mainstream rap. He offers a portrait of his city that’s both loving and critical, grounded in stories that couldn’t have come from anywhere else
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Lelo: New Detroit
Read Alphonse Pierre’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025
Brian Eno has announced Together for Palestine, a concert at London’s Wembley Arena raising funds for families in Gaza
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Brian Eno Announces Together for Palestine Benefit Concert in London
Eno is executive producing “a night of music, reflection and hope” at Wembley Arena, with a lineup to be announced
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025
The Baton Rouge rapper’s first release since his legal pardon is a hyper-emotive data dump that churns through hunger, bitterness, boasts, and torment at breakneck speeds
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YoungBoy Never Broke Again: MASA
Read Matthew Ritchie’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025
Rock music's great drummer reshuffle continues
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Foo Fighters and Nine Inch Nails Swap Drummers, Switching Josh Freese for Ilan Rubin
Freese, the former Nine Inch Nails drummer who replaced the late Taylor Hawkins, is back with Trent Reznor’s crew, while Rubin joins Dave Grohl and company
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025
Here are some methods for scraping good music from the data wasteland
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How to Dig for Music Without Spotify
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week’s column...
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 31/07/2025
On the followup to the pair’s 2020 collaboration, Gibbs sounds unusually animated. The album is an effective demonstration of the rapper’s formalist technique—and prickly personality
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Freddie Gibbs / The Alchemist: Alfredo 2
Read Paul A. Thompson’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025
Revisit our Sunday Review of a landmark album: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Ingénue by k.d. lang cover with 9.0 score
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025
The Queens-born rapper is deep in his comfort zone on his latest project, sounding philosophical, charismatic, and imaginative as ever—if occasionally a little too cozy
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Homeboy Sandman / Sonnyjim: Soli Deo Gloria
Read Dean Van Nguyen’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025
Idles have shared “Rabbit Run,” a new song that they made for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming crime caper Caught Stealing
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Listen to Idles’ New Song for Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing Movie
The British band recorded “Rabbit Run” and three other tracks for the new film starring Austin Butler, Bad Bunny, Zoë Kravitz, Action Bronson, and others
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025
Sleep tight, grim rite, we have 200 albums from the 2000s you can revisit here: pitchfork.com/features/lis... 📷 by Wendy Redfern/Redfern
black and white image of interpol the band with the 200 best albums of the 2000s text on top of them
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025
The Antlers have announced their first new album in four years. Listen to the lead single
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The Antlers Announce New Album Blight, Share New Song
Murder ballad “Carnage” leads the indie-rock band’s first full-length in four years
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025
Sound design studio Slate + Ash has released a new virtual guitar based on sounds designed by avant-garde guitarists
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Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi, and More Help Make New Virtual Guitar
Several leading avant-garde guitarists, also including David Torn and Bill Horist, collaborated with Randall Dunn to design sounds for the new “Ruins” software instrument from Slate + Ash
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025
On a new EP recorded with Nashville songwriter Luke Roberts, the guitarist picks up a bittersweet love song, revisits Constant Hitmaker, and covers Beach House
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Kurt Vile: Classic Love (ep)
Read Stephen M. Deusner’s review of the EP.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 30/07/2025
The long-rumored collection of Ray of Light remixes was a thrilling prospect. The reality is slight and ill-considered, neither an authoritative survey nor a dynamic reinvention
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Madonna: Veronica Electronica
Read Owen Myers’ review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025
Nick Cave found that AI-animated photographs of Presley “had an uncanny quality, as if he had been raised from the dead, and the crucifixion-resurrection images at the end were both shocking and deeply affecting.”
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Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New “Tupelo” Video Starring an AI Elvis
On the Bad Seeds classic’s 40th anniversary, the director Andrew Dominik has persuaded his longtime collaborator that not all artificial intelligence is “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025
Listen to a new single from Animal Collective
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Animal Collective Share New Song “Buddies on the Blackboard”
The B-side to “Love on the Big Screen”
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025
Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern life
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Cory Hanson: I Love People
Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025
Some egg punk for your Tuesday
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Snõõper Announce New Album Worldwide, Share Video for New Song
The Nashville egg-punk band returns with its second LP for Third Man Records
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Ryan Meehan @cryinmeehan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
cory hanson has made another jukebox of bouncy & beautiful tunes about our contemporary psychosis. i wrote about it for @pitchfork.com: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Cory Hanson: I Love People
Read Ryan Meehan’s review of the album.
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025
You can have 17 new Hayley Williams songs as a treat
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Paramore’s Hayley Williams Uploads 17 New Songs to Her Website
“Mirtazapine,” which she debuted on Nashville radio station WNXP last week, is also included
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Pitchfork @pitchfork.com · 29/07/2025
Chuquimamani-Condori's hard-drive dump of DJ edits spins together Andean folk, bro country, pop, tecnocumbia, and more. Their hyper-charged mashups are searching, self-aware, and frequently thrilling
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Chuquimamani-Condori: Edits
Read Sam Goldner’s review of the album.
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